The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-02-15, Page 24PAGE 6A—GODERICHSIGNAL-STAR,'MR S,D rY, FEBRUARY 15, 1979
Jack's
Jottings
from the
Park
BY JACK RIDDELL,
MPP
Glancing through the
Toronto papers this
morning, I noticed an
article entitled ''Rosy ---
If You Don't Eat" and a
sub -heading "Food
Prices Up 19 Percent In A
Year".
As I indicated in my
article last week, far-
mers in the past were
getting most of the blame
for rising food prices, and
I tried to put the farmer's
position in some per-
spective.
Lately Marketing
Boards have also been_
blamed for rising food
prices, so I would like to
deal with that matter in
this week's column, and
once again I would like to
reiterate that I am
sharing the views of Doug
Williamson who is an
agriculture reporter for
The Windsor Star.
Marketing Boards - the
words conjure visions of
farmers as greedy land
barons, driving Cadillacs
while they have.
monopoly control over
food prices at the expense
of hapless consumers.
Ever since Beryl
Plumtre *when she
chaired the food prices
review. board, accused
marketing boards of
being responsible for
artificial food price in-
creases, the controversy
has not gone away.
But Canadians in-..
Eluding many farmers -
don't fully understand the
powers and limitations of
marketing boards:
For example, 'only a'
few of them actually
control prices and
production. Most boards
either act as the farmers'
agent in selling a, par-
ticular commodity,
negotiate a price with
processors or ' set a
minimum price to the
farmer based on market
conditions - often after
consultation with
wholesalers and
retailers.
There's a big difference
between the powers of a
board whichcan set
farmer prices regularly
based on cost of
production and one which
determines a price based
on what the market will
bear.
Marketing boards are ..
not recent inventions of
money -hungry farmers
British Columbia enacted
the first legislation in
Canada allowing \ the
formation „of boards in
1934 and Ontario followed
in 1937.
The "Ontario Farm
Products Marketing Act
allows growers - of a
particular commodity to
vote whether to form a
board, and then put one
together under super-
vision of the provincial. -
farm products marketing
board. The boards
finance their own
operations,,usually with a
levy or check off farmers
pay as a percentage of
sales or acreage under
production.
FIVE BOARDS BORN
In 1937, five boards
were immediately born in
Ontario. As farmers saw
the advantages of more
orderly marketing, more
boards were approved.
There are now 23 boards
operating in this
province, and in 1976'.
farm products valued at
$1.5 billion were
marketed through the
boards under provincial
jurisdiction,
Some boards operate in
each province but are
more or less under
federal control. These
include, in Ontario,
boards for milk, turkeys,
and eggs, and more
recently, chickens.
In 1972, the federal
Farm Products
Marketing Agencies Act
was approved and
allowed the formation of
the . Canadian Egg
Marketing Agency
(CEM A) in 1973 and the
Canadian Turkey
Marketing Agency in
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